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This is the first one-volume work to provide a thorough and comprehensive description of the physical background, rigorous theory and applications of Kramers-Kronig relations in the fields of linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Currently, Kramers-Kronig relations have become basic tools in the investigation of the optical properties of materials. A brief presentation of the related data-retrieval technique, the maximum entropy method, is also given. The contents and style potentially make this a standard text for physicists, chemists and engineers interested in optical-materials research and development.

Spectrum analysis. --- Materials --- Analyse spectrale --- Optical properties. --- Spectrum analysis --- Optical properties --- Physics. --- Electrodynamics. --- Physical optics. --- Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices. --- Classical Electrodynamics, Wave Phenomena. --- Optical Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Optics. --- Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering. --- Physics --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Light & Optics --- Materials Science --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Analysis, Spectrum --- Spectra --- Spectrochemical analysis --- Spectrochemistry --- Spectroscopy --- Materials science. --- Optics. --- Optoelectronics. --- Plasmons (Physics). --- Engineering. --- Materials Science. --- Materials Science, general. --- Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices. --- Optics and Electrodynamics. --- Engineering, general. --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Chemistry, Analytic --- Interferometry --- Optics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Absorption spectra --- Light --- Spectroscope --- Qualitative --- Materials. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- New optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Spectrometry --- Analytical chemistry --- Materials - Optical properties --- Acqui 2006

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"This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments. Previous studies on climate change and tourism have mainly focused on the Global North and specific forms of tourism such as snow-based winter activities. Drawing on case studies from a wide range of countries including South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, this book fills this lacuna by describing and analysing the climate change and tourism nexus in the southern African context. The book begins by providing an overview of the current and estimated impacts of climate change to the tourism industry in the region, highlighting the deepening socio-economic inequities, and environmental and social injustices. It focuses on the importance of sustainable tourism in tackling these issues and highlights that resilience and robust governance and policy systems are essential for a tourism destination to successfully adapt to change. By synthesising the key lessons learned through this analysis, Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa also draws attention to specific adaptation and policy strategies which have value for other regions in the Global South. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, tourism and environmental policy and justice"--

Tourism --- Climatic changes --- Environmental aspects

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Tourism has become a major economic agent and an important social and cultural element in contemporary southern Africa. As such, tourism has a wide range of impacts on environment, economy, cultures, and the everyday life of people. These processes have highlighted the role of sustainability in tourism development.This book represents an accessible examination of the connections between tourism and sustainability in southern Africa. It introduces connections between tourism, sustainability and development with a range of case studies and examples from the region. While the book and the individual chapters are emphasising the key role of tourism in the transition processes of local communities and environments, the social, cultural, economic and political contexts of tourism and communities are also highlighted.

Tourism --- Environmental protection --- Tourisme --- Environnement --- Protection --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Environmental protection -- South Africa. --- Tourism -- South Africa. --- Travel & Tourism --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Southern Africa --- community tourism. --- sustainability. --- sustainable tourism. --- tourism and natural resources. --- tourism and sustainability in southern Africa. --- tourism development. --- tourism impacts. --- tourism policy in southern africa.

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Tourism is a major industry in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) as well as a growing field of academic study. For many cities and regions tourism is also increasingly recognised as being integral to economic, social and sustainable development. In addition, tourism also contributes to Nordic identity through destination promotion and tourism activities, including winter tourism and the tradition of access to common land, as well as specific forms of tourism, such as second homes. Nordic Tourism is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to tourism in the region that links Nordic tourism research and concerns with key concepts in tourism studies. The book consists of eleven chapters dealing with issues ranging from, for example, marketing and policy to nature-based tourism, culture and the contribution of tourism to environmental change. The inclusion of case studies from leading Nordic researchers on specific destinations, attractions, resources, sectors and developments also provides a valuable learning tool for all students of tourism.

Tourism --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Management. --- Economic aspects --- Scandinavia --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- UmU kursbok --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Voyages and travels --- Management --- Nordic identity. --- Nordic tourism research. --- Nordic tourism. --- destination management. --- destination promotion. --- tourism management. --- tourism marketing. --- winter tourism.

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The volume Landscapes of Affect and Emotion maps out the current approaches on emotion and affect in environmental humanities and interdisciplinary landscape studies. It discusses the contemporary emotional turn in humanities and its relation to space, place and landscape. Emotions and affects are addressed from three main angles: representation and symbolic landscape, place experience and lifeworlds, and landscape as an embodied set of practices. These are studied in terms of the changing human-nature relationship, focusing on politicisations and contestations of landscape as well as boundaries and hybridity between culture and nature.

Culture --- Human beings --- Landscapes --- Semiotic models --- Effect of environment on --- Psychological aspects